Degenerate Monkey:Semantic pedants, to be dead is to not be alive and to be alive is to not be dead; to be both dead and alive then is to be neither alive nor dead. Subby is just fine.

Schrödinger's dictator is just fine.

I see what you're saying, but I disagree. An inanimate object - say, a rock - is neither dead nor alive. It is by no means, however, both dead and alive. "Dead" doesn't mean simply "not alive;" it means "no longer alive." There's a significant difference.

I'm reminded of when Yasser Arafat died. He was dead, then alive, then dead, etc. People suspected that he was being kept alive on life support so that they could plan an elaborate funeral for him and still bury him within 24 hours of his death, as per Islamic law. But I suspect that Mubarak will be buried as a common criminal when he dies, so this probably isn't the case for him.